Today's News

The Lawrenceburg City Council will hear concerns about its cemetery policy during a special-called meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 19 at the Anderson County Senior Center, Mayor Edwinna Baker announced.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
The city council has been besieged by grieving moms and others who have lost loved ones since a notice appeared several weeks ago in The Anderson News, warning them to remove items not attached to headstones or risk having them thrown away.

Gary Bancroft is almost certain to spend at least the next several decades in prison after pleading guilty to murder and associated charges Tuesday morning in Anderson Circuit Court.
Bancroft entered his plea under the protests of public defender Scott Getsinger, who told Circuit Court Judge Charles Hickman that he had advised Bancroft on several occasions not to accept a deal offered by Commonwealth Attorney Laura Donnell.

Imagine having a son or daughter fighting in Afghanistan.
Now imagine how it would feel if your phone rang and the caller said the following: “Your son has been seriously wounded. That’s all the information I can give you at this time.”
Rodney Goodlett doesn’t have to imagine how that would feel, because last Monday afternoon he lived through that exact phone call.

The woman who unsuccessfully sued the Anderson County Fiscal Court for $1.5 million on sexual harassment and whistleblower allegations is demanding a new trial.
In a motion filed Friday in Anderson Circuit Court, Lea Beasmore said she should be given a new trial because a relative of Judge-Executive John Wayne Conway served on the jury.
Juror Carolyn Burton’s relationship to Conway was not spelled out in the motion, but she is believed to be a cousin of Conway’s wife.

When trying to figure out the post-season prospects for Anderson County softball, one can safely say Anderson County has a chance.

The Lady Bearcats have a chance to be playing in Owensboro at the state tournament. And they have a chance to be heading home for the season in the first district tournament game, a semi-final showdown with Collins.

Handicapping the Eighth Region baseball race is easy in 2011.
Just throw about 12 names in a hat an pick one.

The hard part is getting the right one.

That is how wide open the quest for the top of the region is this year after a decade of dominance by Anderson County and Shelby County, the schools that have combined for nine of the 11 regional titles since 2000.

To say Anderson County was short-handed last week is kind of like commenting that it has rained a little bit lately.

Competing in the Central Kentucky Conference championships, a meet surpassed in importance only by this week’s regional, the Bearcats were without most of their junior and senior performers, many of whom were gone on school sponsored trips.

“This last week was rough on the stat sheet with the senior and junior trips taking place the same weekend,” said Anderson coach Robert Meacham.